The Arab world is now asking several questions about Tunisia's secular party Nidaa Tounes, which gained the highest number of votes in the country's parliamentary elections held on Sunday. With ...
TUNIS – “We have members in the Nidaa Tounes party who are hard leftists, many who are moderate liberals and others who used to be Islamists and decided that our programme is best for Tunisia,” said ...
Tunisian parliament. Chedly Ben Ibrahim/Demotix. All rights reserved. El-Habib Saïd took the reins of the office of prime minister on 6 February 2015. He succeeded ...
TUNIS – Standing alone with hands splayed over an ornate white tomb, Beji Caid Essebsi, head of the party which took most seats in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections, cast an eye to the past as he ...
A self-styled, secular, modernist party called Nidaa Tounes won against the Islamist Ennahda party in the Tunisian election this week. For many, the subsequent headline – “Secularist party wins ...